Now for something completely different: Some people may remember us saying that we had another telly appearance coming up? Holman Hunt the painter? Sky Arts? I wasn’t supposed to write about it until the programme…
View PostThe last post, about our walk to the Country Park, proved to be extraordinarily popular – in less than one week it has rocketed to be one of the most viewed Battleaxe posts ever. I…
View PostFrom our house, we can walk up to, and through, the Hastings Country Park. You can see that it was a perfect walking morning, so we went for a five mile circuit, planning to break…
View PostGetting a bit WI-crazy Christmassy here. Battleaxe has been very busy, so this is quite a quick post. On Tuesday this week we had a Christmas outing to the Fairlight Lodge Hotel, on Thursday it…
View PostOne of the founders of the campaign for women’s suffrage, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, lived most of her life in or near Hastings, and sadly, is little known or celebrated in her home town. I’m…
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